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  1. 1 a Doing nothing and hoping for the best — being Glenn etc (anag) (6,7)
  2. 8 a Lockjaw (7)
  3. 9 a Australian operatic soprano, d. 1931 (5)
  4. 10 a Kind (4)
  5. 11 a Punctuation mark (4,4)
  6. 13 a Container used in lubricating machinery (6)
  7. 14 a Lingerie — is nude (anag) (6)
  8. 17 a Stand in (8)
  9. 19 a Experts (4)
  10. 21 a Nigerian currency unit (5)
  11. 22 a Improving trend (7)
  12. 24 a Scottish breed of cattle (8,5)
  13. 1 d Cricket club (3)
  14. 2 d One regarded as sure to succeed in some field (7)
  15. 3 d Departed (4)
  16. 4 d Big meal (slang) (4-2)
  17. 5 d Playing for stakes (8)
  18. 6 d Brilliant success (5)
  19. 7 d Austere monks taking a vow of silence (9)
  20. 10 d Welsh national park (9)
  21. 12 d Writer of light romantic fiction, Princess Diana's stepgrand­mother, d. 2000 (8)
  22. 15 d Moving slowly and carefully (7)
  23. 16 d Accept as true without proof (6)
  24. 18 d Elegance (5)
  25. 20 d The Orient (4)
  26. 23 d Hydrogen, for example (3)

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